Lawsuit Debate Again Derails Wash. State Privacy Legislation

Charlotte Privacy & Data Security Counsel Leslie Pedernales was quoted in the Law360 article titled, “Lawsuit Debate Again Derails Wash. State Privacy Legislation” which was published on March 13.

 "A national privacy law with preemption of state laws would be preferable to a patchwork of state privacy acts, although the current climate in Congress does not seem ripe for action on this issue," Moore & Van Allen PLLC counsel Leslie Pedernales said.

That leaves all eyes on the states, although Pedernales noted that the enforcement impasse that kept the Washington state bill from being law "is indicative of what similar bills would be up against in other states and in Congress."

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